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Congratulations to PhD candidate Jos Marshall who has been awarded a #UBuffalo LEAD Award for Pride & Service! The nomination made reference to her work with The riverrun Global Film Series, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project, Palah Light Lab, and an exhibition she curated at the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo entitled "Being In-Between / In-Between Being."

Congratulations to Alex Novak, a #UBuffalo English major who has presented research on "Queer Representation in YA Literature" at the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence Student Showcase!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Bill Solomon has been appointed Chair of the Department of English. He has been serving in this role during the current academic year on an interim basis.

More congratulations are in order! Professor Jamie Barber, Director of the #UBuffalo #Journalism Program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship to carry out research at the Science Gallery Bengaluru in India! Professor Barber will work with the Science Gallery to facilitate student instruction in the area of science communication. To learn more about the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship program and United States-India Educational Foundation, visit https://www.usief.org.in/.../US-Fulbright-Nehru-Academic... For more information about the Science Gallery, visit https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/

#UBuffalo PhD Candidate Nicole Lowman has recently published a chapter on "Teaching Creative Writing, Literary Theory, and Critical Race Theory with Palahniuk" in Teaching Palahniuk:  The Treasures of Transgression in the Age of Trump (Vernon Press, 2022). See https://vernonpress.com/book/1351 for more information. But wait, there's more! Her article, "Trump's American in Black and White: Palahniuk's Not-So-Far-Fetched Ethnostates in Adjustment Day," also appears in The New Americanist published by the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. Visit The New Americanist to read this and other articles. Congratulations!

#UBuffalo Department of English Associate Professor Ming-Qian Ma has recently guest edited an issue of CounterText: “Poetry Elsewhere, Elsewhere Poetry” (Volume 7, Issue 3, Edinburgh University Press). The issue contains an introductory essay by Ma, a lengthy interview with Jed Rasula, an essay by Professor Steve McCaffery (“Discontinued Mediations: Preludes to Fractured Thinking”), poetry by Rae Armantrout (“As if Traveling Bushwhack”), Sasha Steenson (“Tilth Overland Trail”), Will Alexander (“Three Short Poems Concerning the Henbane Bird”), and Ariana Nadia Nash (“Dystopic: An Erasure”), as well as an article by Andrew Dorkin (“Humoring Futurity: Avant-Garde Poetry for Children”)—not to mention a piece by Henry Sussman on Steve McCaffery’s overall achievement titled “The Poet as Cyber-Linguistic Programmer of Her Age.” Congratulations to all! https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/count/current

Many many congratulations to #UBuffalo Department of English Associate Professor Miriam Thaggert, whose monograph Riding Jane Crow:  African American Women on the American Railroad is due out in late June from U of Illinois Press!

Katie has been awarded a Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Research Fellowship for Graduate Students (Yale), which she will use to work with poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's recently catalogued archive.  As the stipend may be used to visit one other archive, Katie will also work with Lisa Robertson's papers at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.